Rombout is a

Dutch Dutch or Nederlands commonly refers to: * Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands ** Dutch people as an ethnic group () ** Dutch nationality law, history and regulations of Dutch citizenship () ** Dutch language () * In specific terms, i ...

masculine given name, equivalent to English Rumbold. It is of Germanic origin, containing the

Old Saxon Old Saxon (), also known as Old Low German (), was a Germanic language and the earliest recorded form of Low German (spoken nowadays in Northern Germany, the northeastern Netherlands, southern Denmark, the Americas and parts of Eastern Eur ...

elements -hrôm- ("fame", Dutch ''roem'') and -bald- ("brave"). It is also possible that the first element comes from -Rûma- ("Rome"), a place name that also featured in old Germanic names.Rombout
an
Rombert
in the

Meertens Institute The Meertens Institute (Dutch ''Meertens Instituut'') in Amsterdam Amsterdam ( , ; ; ) is the capital of the Netherlands, capital and Municipalities of the Netherlands, largest city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It has a population of ...

database of Dutch given names. Early source usually Latinized

Saint Rombout Saint Rumbold (or ''Rumold'', ''Romuold''; ; ; ; many variants overall) was an Irish people, Irish or Scottish people, Scottish Christianism, Christian missionary, although his true nationality is not known for certain. He was martyred near Meche ...

's name as Rumoldus, as in the first known mention in a pre-927 grant by

Charles the Simple Charles III (17 September 879 – 7 October 929), called the Simple or the Straightforward (from the Latin ''Carolus Simplex''), was the king of West Francia from 898 until 922 and the king of Lotharingia from 911 until 919–923. He was a memb ...

, mentioning that the Mechelen abbey had been built in his honor ("in honorem S. Rumoldi martyris constructam").Sint-Rombout
at the Mechelen encyclopedia website (with further sourres). *

(died between 580 and 655), in English known as "Rumbold of Mechelen" *

Rombout Hogerbeets Rombout Hogerbeets (Hoorn, 24 June 1561 — Wassenaar, 7 September 1625) was a Dutch jurist and statesman. He was tried for treason, together with Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Hugo Grotius, and Gilles van Ledenberg during the political crisis of ...

(1561–1625), Dutch statesman *

Rombout II Keldermans Rombout II Keldermans (ca. 1460 in Mechelen – 15 December 1531 in Antwerp), was an important architect from the Gothic period, born from a family of architects and sculptors (see Keldermans family). He was city architect of Mechelen and c ...

(1460–1531), Belgian architect * Rombout van Troyen (1605–1655), Dutch landscape painter *

Rombout Verhulst Rombout Verhulst (15 January 1624 – buried 27 November 1698) was a Flemish sculptor and draughtsman who spent most of his career in the Dutch Republic. An independent assistant of the Flemish sculptor Artus Quellinus the Elder in the sculptur ...

(1624–1698), Flemish-Dutch sculptor *

Catheryna Rombout Brett Catheryna Rombout Brett (1687–1764) (also Catherina, Catherine, and Catharyna) was the daughter of 12th New York City mayor and land baron Francis Rombouts and Helena Teller Bogardus Van Ball. She inherited a one-third interest in the sprawlin ...

(1687–1764), American businesswoman

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